The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1887-08-11
COUNCIL nEEr1Ea.
An Asocation OrdInancs--tBusa and Trans
fer Teams Must Pay SIS Zach
CLERKS salaTy--ssWerage Re
port-CouncII Adjourned
10 Wonaav Might.

II LAlNA7u UMA1aM 80 NAAEN -
port--CouncII Adjourned
90 Monday Might.
The council met in regular session
Tuesday evening.
The speefu committee on lieensl
presented ordinance No. SCI, levy
ing license on certain occupations
The report was accepted and thu
committee discharged. The Ordi
nance was read and passed by sec
lions. A few changes were made
lessing the fee. The license fOl
omnibus companies and transfer
companies was stricken out. The
vote on this motion was ayes, noes
Jackson and Supple. The license
fee Of pawnbrOkers was raised from
800 to 500. The ordinance a
amended, (which appears in tO-day's
JoURNAL,) was passed by the fol-
lowing vote: Ayes-Fitzpatriek,
supple, Walton, Woodward and
Cravens; Noes-Miller, Beedy and
Jackson.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick, who made the
motion on which the bus and trans
fer lines were stricken from the IL
cense ordinance, urged foI the mo-
ton that the measure would act for
monOpOlies as against poor men,
wherein those with one or two trans
fer teams would be compelled to
pay $25 each while the company with
eight or ten teams would pay but
500. Also that by provision, a bus
company under the 500 clause, could
run any number OF teams TO the trains
or To a public gathering Or to an eX-
cursion and the result would be to
wrong the delivery men who had
paid SO for each vehicle for the priv
ilege Of conveying passengers. Or
the city might be made to suffer by
tel, fifteen or twenty OF the delivery
men combining in one company and
being enabled to act under the 500
provision.
The ways and means committee
reported that they had received from
the mayor and clerk the bOndsOf the
city TO the amount Of $36,076 for
right-Of-way Of Santa Fe, whose is
suance had been provided by ordi-
nance, and the same have been sold
dollar for dollar. The report was
adopted and the committee dis
charged from further consideration
of the matter.
The committee on claims reported
sundry amounts by ordinance for
allowance, and the ordinance was
passed a. offered.
The committee on streets and al
leyr reported in the matter Of petit
tion to widen Prescott avenue, and
recommended that a new committee
Of three to reappraise the property
be appointed. a resolution Of Mr..
Fitzpatrick to carry out the recon-
mendation was defeated, and by
ruling Of the mayor, on the purpOrt
of the resolution the proposed action
to widen the avenue was killed in its
functions in council meeting.
The mayor brought before the
council the subject Of raising the
salary Of the city clerk from $500, as
it is now, to 500 per year, and he re-
ferred the matter to the ways and
means committee by consent.
The mayor suggested that the city
council make levy Of one dollar
poll tax on all male persons between
p and 80 years. The same was ex-
planned to be additional to the s.
road tax. Referred to committee.
The sewer committe made report
OF investigation in the matter of
sewerage for the city. The report
was received and ordered placed on
file and committee discharged.
The report is as follows:
To the Honorable Mayor and Couneilmen
of the city Of salina, Assembled.
GENTLEMEN:-IOu Committee
to confer with an engineer
in regard to the practicability Of sew
erage and cost, beg leave to make
the following:
ON invitation, Mr. BOntecOn, of
the firm Of Messrs. Knight & Bon
tenon, came to the City Of Salina,
and viewed the ground as to the
practicabiIity of building a sewer.
n q
having the main sewer on Ash
street, which could be used fOi
storm-water sewer so long as there
wuul be no interference by an eX-
cess Of house sewerage and storm
water combined. He recommended
the lateral sewers to be placed H.
alleys.
Mr.. McMath, sewer commissioner
Of 1t. Louis, was next invited here
Mr.. McMath recommends the sepa
rate system of sewerage, carrying
the surface, or storm water OFF b.
means of surface cutters until suel
time rs the property OF the cit!
would warrant tire expense. He Re
commends sanitary sewer to b.
placed in Ash street, 2X3 feet, to b.
built Of brick. Lateral sewers to be
built up each alley, north and south
as occasion desired.
The following is an estimate Of tn
cost a. figured by Mr.. McMath 10,
the original town site:
Main sewer on Ash street,
2x3 IT., brick, 2,640 IT,, at
$50 per foot, -. 81, 40 o
Eight man-hOles, .-..... $50 o
Sewers south Of Ash street, - ,339 u
Sewer north Of " Il, 55T o.
Contingencies, ............. 6S4 81
$500 o
The area estimated would contain
so lots, and taking the estimat'
($55, 500 the cost per lot would b,
$50. The cost of main sewer in Asl
street, of double strength sewe
pipe, Il. in diameter, would be s
cents per foot more than the bricl
sewer and would not Ice as large.
Respectfully submitted,
TAYLOR MILLER,
GEO. r. SUPPLE,
r. WALTON.
r. w. Pike. proprietor Of the ga
works Of Salina, appeared before tn,
council and stated the works wer,